Dear colleagues,

We invite proposals for our panel: « *Cosmopolitan enclaves: tensions and
paradoxes* » (P092) to be presented at the EASA biennial conference
"Staying, Moving, Settling" in Stockholm, 14-18 August 2018.

Call for Papers closes on 9 April. Propose your paper via the following
link: https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6639.

Short abstract :
This panel will discuss the concept of ‘cosmopolitan enclaves’ in its
spatial, economic and social dimensions. In particular, it will address the
theoretical and empirical relevance of rearticulating mobility and space
for understanding the paradoxes of cosmopolitan enclavement.

Long abstract :
This panel will offer theoretical and ethnographic insights into the
concept of ‘cosmopolitan enclaves’. In particular, it will address the
telling tensions and scholarly potential of combining the transnational
ideal of cosmopolitanism (e.g. Hannerz, 1990; Vertovec & Cohen, 2002) with
the exclusive segregation implied by the concept of spatial, economic or
social enclaves (e.g. Portes & Manning, 1985; Ferguson, 2005; Ballif,
2009). It will address the paradoxical localization of these social spaces,
and discuss how far certain actors rely on cosmopolitan enclaves as a
resource for (im)mobility and territorial claims. The panel will further
consider which stances are developed from within these enclaves towards
outsiders—so-called non-cosmopolitan locals—and how practices of inclusion
and exclusion reinforce enclaves’ boundaries.

Possible questions for individual papers include: What practices and
representations of geographic mobility support the creation and
reproduction of cosmopolitan enclaves? What are the specific attributes of
such spaces, what are their underlying territorial claims, and what are
their implicit ‘admission criteria’? How do they favor (unequal) access to
specific resources? How far do these cosmopolitan enclaves participate to
(counter)hegemonic narratives? How are enclave boundaries created and
maintained?

Through both theoretical inputs and a range of case studies (involving, for
example, international schools, transnational social activism, expat
communities, multinational companies, expert communities, high end resorts,
NGOs, religious communities…), this panel will shed light on how a
localized cosmopolitan stance can both reinforce and undermine the
formation of enclavement, keeping a keen eye on its political and social
implications.

Convenors:
Jeanne Rey (University of Teacher Education Fribourg)
Matthieu Bolay (University of applied sciences HEP|PH Fribourg)
Yonatan Nissim Gez (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

-- 
Yonatan N. Gez

Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities
and Social Sciences, HUJI (Jerusalem)
Head of Africa Unit, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of
Peace, HUJI (Jerusalem)
Associate Researcher, IHEID (Geneva) and HEP (Fribourg)

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